11th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

June 11–12, 2024 – Fraunhofer FOKUS

Stephan Steglich

Director Business Unit FAME

Fraunhofer FOKUS

Dr. Stephan Steglich is director of the Business Unit Future Applications and Media (FAME) at Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) in Berlin, Germany. Stephan received his M.Sc. in computer science and PhD in Computer Science from the TU Berlin. His fields of interest include, e.g., context-awareness, user-interaction, and service front-ends. He has been involved in a number of projects that were related to Human-Machine-Interaction, next telecommunication systems, personalization and user profiling. Since 2010, Stephan is working the area next generation Web platform for cross-platform and cross-device applications and media – including topics like interactive media, web technologies, VR/360° video, media streaming and connectedTV/HbbTV. He is managing international and national level research activities and has been an organizer and a member of program committees of several international conferences. He is actively participating in standardization activities in these research areas and gives lectures at the Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin).

  • 14:00-15:00

    SmartTV HbbTV++ – What is the next step in Hybrid TV

    Klaus Merkel

    Institut für Rundfunktechnik, Germany

    How to make a SmartTV

    Volker Blume

    Philips, Germany

    Interactive TV experience

    Frank Lonczewski

    Deutsche Telekom, Germany

    15:00-16:00

    Adaptive Streaming / DRM / Metadata

    ZDF Mediathek – How to serve all this media

    Robert Amlung

    ZDF, Germany

    Metadata – The missing link

    Alexander Adolf

    Condition-ALPHA Digital Broadcast Technology Consulting, Germany

    Adaptive Streaming

    Eric Rosier

    Ericsson

    16:00-16:30 Coffee Break, Exhibition & Demos

    16:30-17:30

    Media Cloud / Audio & Video

    How to store and deliver live TV

    Stefan Lietsch

    Zattoo, Germany

    Cloud Based Media

    Stefan Jenzowsky

    Siemens AG Österreich, Austria

    The audio cloud

    Anirban Majumdar

    Dolby, Germany

    Delivering personalized social media content to the bush

    Arkady Zaslavsky

    CSIRO, Australia

    17:30-18:00

    Panel Discussion: Broadband Broadcast Convergence

    Jan Wendt

    MMH NetRange, Germany

    Adel Al-Hezmi

    QUWIC – Qatar university wireless innovations Center, Qatar

    Yun Chao Hu

    Huawei

    Randolph Nikutta

    Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany

    Dirk Hetzer

    Media Broadcast, Germany